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Fan art has flourished in the social media age, but not everyone is blessed with the skills to turn their ideas into spectacular — and disturbing — visual creations. The worst offenders hang in galleries of horrors across Reddit and Twitter. Visit them if you dare, but be warned: these cursedimages will be forever imprinted on your brain. Fearful of joining these walls of shame, fan artists are turning to a new AI app for help.

The annual robotics festival Robotex International is due to take place in Tallinn from 5-7 November; in addition to autonomous machines, a renowned humanoid robot called Sophia will “make an appearance” at the festival.

The festival will host competitions and robotics workshops and sheds light on autonomous machines and electromobility. It will also showcase locomotives developed and produced in Estonia and abroad.

In 2010, Australian singer/songwriter Charlton Hill and music technologist Justin Shave joined ranks to set up Uncanny Valley, a Sydney-based progressive technology company at the cutting-edge of the music industry. Charlton Hill, who is also head of innovation at Uncanny Valley, discusses the company’s ambitions to speed up, democratize and re-shape music production through the use of artificial intelligence (AI).